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Budget Amendments - SB800 (Committee Approved)

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Unfreeze 11 Judgeships (language only)

Item 53 #2s

Item 53 #2s

Judicial Department
Judicial Department Reversion Clearing Account

Language
Page 36, line 26, strike "3,305,080" and insert "4,603,140".
Page 36, line 27, strike "4,003,712" and insert "4,248,900".
Page 37, after line 24, insert:
"63.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized circuit court judgeship in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to August 1, 2012.
64.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized circuit court judgeship in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to January 1, 2013.
65.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized circuit court judgeship in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to May 1, 2013.
66.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized circuit court judgeship in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to July 1, 2013.
67.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized general district court judgeship in the Sixteenth Judicial District in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to February 1, 2013.
68.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized general district court judgeship in the Seventeenth Judicial District in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to May 1, 2011.
69.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized general district court judgeship in the Nineteenth Judicial District in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to February 1, 2010.
70.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized general district court judgeship in the Twenty-seventh Judicial District in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to January 1, 2011.
71.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeship in the Fifteenth Judicial District in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to May 1, 2013.
72.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeship in the Twenty-first Judicial District in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to April 1, 2013.
73.  Effective July 1, 2013, the provisions of this item shall not apply to any authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeship in the Twenty-third Judicial District in which the incumbent judge vacated the bench prior to July 1, 2013."


Explanation
(This amendment authorizes the General Assembly to fill eleven specified judgeships in the circuit, general district, and juvenile and domestic relations district courts, effective July 1, 2013. Sufficient funds are available within the Judicial Department budget for this purpose. It is the intention of the General Assembly that sufficient funds be made available within the existing appropriation in this item for substitute judges for the Fifteenth General District Court for a judgeship in which the incumbent vacated the bench as of January 28, 2013, and for the Twenty-fifth General District Court in which the incumbent vacated the bench as of December 31, 2012, and in which the substitute will also support the Twenty-sixth General District Court. This amendment also increases the transfer to the general fund from the Judicial Reversion Clearing Account by $1,298,060 the first year and $245,188 the second year, based on revised calculations of budget savings assuming the revised number of judgeships are unfrozen as of July 1, 2013.)